QUESTION:
In your opinion, is there enough information in the mytho-historical record(or geological record) to discriminate between an
interpretation of the Saturnian system coming from outside the
system and the Saturnian system always being at the distance of
the asteroid belt? If so, what do you accept as evidence?

REPLY:

This ties in with the manner in which the Cosmic Egg was seen to
break. See here my article, "The Evolution of the Cosmogonic Egg,"
AEON III:5, pp. 52 ff., but especially p. 67.

Here's a brief summary of the reference from pg. 52: ... "one
consistent motif connected with [the myths of creation]
...concerns the universal, celestial, or cosmic egg. This motif
is found scattered throughout the entire world − Mircea Eliade
has noted examples from Polynesia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Greece,
Phoenecia, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Africa, Central and South
America." And from pg. 67: "As Talbott has already shown, the
luminous gases expelled by the dislodged Venus slowly congealed
into a circular band which expanded and was visually seen from
Earth to surround the Saturnian orb. This band, or egg, ... was
originally of a golden color. ... having glowed as a complete
circle for an ambiguous length of time, the band's illumination
changed so that, while half of it remained a brilliant gold, the
other half changed to a lesser silver light − or half bright and
half dark, as other sources inform us. What this means is that
the position of the ring must have changed with respect to the
present, but still somehow hidden, Sun."

Also, had the Saturnian system always existed at the distance of
the asteroid belt, the crescent would always have been there, and
we have deduced from the mytho-historical record that it had not.

Also, had the crescent always been there, its circling around the
Saturnian orb would have enabled man to tell the passage of time,
which the ancients themselves tell us they could not. See here my
paper, "The Beginning of Time," in same issue of AEON, pp. 71 ff.

Also, we need a mechanism to account for Saturn's flare-up and, as
Thornhill has indicated, this is best explained by the Saturnian
system's plasmasphere coming in contact with that of the Sun. Had
the Saturnian system always existed at the distance of the
asteroid belt, it would already have been within the heliosphere.

Also, had the Saturnian system always been at the distance of the
asteroid belt, Venus, Mars, and Earth would have long been within
the clutches of the Sun's attracting power, and the planets would
not have been able to sustain their linear stacking.

The asteroid belt is therefore best understood as the GENERAL
locality in which the system broke up, having come within that
orbital distance from outside the Sun's domain of influence.